---
title: "About"
date: "2014-04-09"
layout: "about"
menu: "main"
weight: 50
---

Hugo is a static site engine written in Go.


It makes use of a variety of open source projects including:

* [Cobra](https://github.com/spf13/cobra)
* [Viper](https://github.com/spf13/viper)
* [J Walter Weatherman](https://github.com/spf13/jWalterWeatherman)
* [Cast](https://github.com/spf13/cast)

Learn more and contribute on [GitHub](https://github.com/gohugoio).